Top 1200 Narrative Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.

I call the art of theatre a "dirty art", since there are so many people involved who have needs and whims to be satisfied.

My dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art.

The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.

But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures.

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

Art itself is knowledge of the spiritual world. Art is information from higher forces, by those who are talented. I'm not jiving.

I don't want to sign four films at a time, as acting is an art, and art cannot be done without honesty.

I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.

Art - be it painting, sculpture, music - they are all creations, they are creative acts. I consider a film, with everything that is involved in it, an art.

The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.

I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics. I think something like the Sistine Chapel is something that goes beyond just being a Christian thing. It transcends its Christianity and becomes sort of a universal beauty. And I think that's true of music and art and literature.

"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.

A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.

Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.

Warhol had resonance because it was high art and low art. And you could argue about it endlessly.

Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

Art is universal. When works of art become classics, it is because they transcend geographical boundaries, racial barriers and time.

Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.

I still believe that the best art - be it music, comedy, painting, etc. - is the art that hasn't been asked for, or is expected.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.

I'm not anti conceptual art. I don't think painting must be revived, exactly. Art reflects life, and our lives are full of algorithms, so a lot of people are going to want to make art that's like an algorithm. But my language is painting, and painting is the opposite of that. There's something primal about it. It's innate, the need to make marks. That's why, when you're a child, you scribble.

In every art, beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

I'm just open to new experiences. I've never really settled down into one art. I like to be nomadic with my art.

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

The art market is global now, and theres becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.

I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time and space, will sensuously caress and mold and pattern every facet of the terrestrial artifact as if it were a work of art, and man himself will become an organic art form.

In the past, art was admired and revered from afar. Today, there is more of an interactive relationship between the art and the person who admires it.

I've been covering the art industry for nine years, and I still don't feel like I have a clear grasp on what an art consultant does. What's the difference between a dealer and an art consultant? Who are they? What's their day to day like? So I asked a few private dealers, consultants and curators to talk about what they do. Everyone told me a different story.

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

I personally don't care for abstract art. I have always felt, 'To each his own.' There's art out there for everybody.

True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.

Everyone should be able to make art about ideas without getting cornered into self-art.

Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.

Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value.

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.

It is a significant symbol that street art is gaining increased attention and credibility in the art world and that's a good thing.

If the picture is not an artistic picture, it's show, like television. Television series are very funny, but it's a collective production. An industrial art. A car is not made by a person, it's made by a group of creators, only to go to the market to buy your cigarettes. That is a car - they are not a big art, they are a little art.

We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.

Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.

I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to embrace all people who are striving for alternatives in an increasingly dehumanized world. I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality art is a need-to-have.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you're giving it up, you're at the mercy of so many other people.